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Pompeii's House of Dionysian Delights

Vivid frescoes in an opulent dining room celebrate the wild rites of the wine god

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Frescoed panels in the House of the Thiasus portray a satyr (left) and a woman (right)
Courtesy Archaeological Park of Pompeii

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Return to Serpent Mountain

Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert

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Himalayan High Art

In a remote region of India, archaeologists trace 4,000 years of history through a vast collection of petroglyphs

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What Happened in Goyet Cave?

New analysis of Neanderthal remains reveals surprisingly grim secrets

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The Third Cave, one of the galleries in a cave system in central Belgium known as the Goyet Caves
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  • Features January/February 2012

    Viking Boat Burial - Ardnamurchan, Scotland

    A spectacular Viking boat burial was uncovered this year on the coast of Ardnamurchan, a remote region of western Scotland, the first such burial to be found on the British mainland.

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  • Features January/February 2012

    Open Source Australopithecus - Malapa, South Africa

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  • Features November 1, 2011

    The World in Between

    5,000 years ago, a long-buried society in the Iranian desert helped shape the first urban age

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  • Features November 1, 2011

    The Pre-Motor City

    As Detroit paves a new economic road forward, an archaeologist investigates its industrial beginnings

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    (Nikhil Swaminathan)
  • Features September 1, 2011

    Translating Maya History

    ome of the most important clues that led to deciphering ancient Maya glyphs came from the carved stone monuments at Piedras Negras and Yaxchilan. In 1960, art historian Tatiana Proskouriakoff published a systematic study of the glyphs on more than 40 large rectangular monuments called stelae that had been erected at Piedras Negras.

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  • Features September 1, 2011

    Pirates of the Marine Silk Road

    A shipwreck in the South China Sea advances China's emerging field of underwater ARCHAEOLOGY

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